Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Sabbath Resurrection: “I Will Raise Him Up at the Last Day.”

It has always been a curious thing to me when I read the words of our Messiah from John 6:39-54, because he tells us that he will raise up his elect at the last day.The question in my mind for years has been “Does he mean the last day just before he returns? Or does he mean the very last day after his one thousand year reign on earth?”It wasn’t until I began to understand the prophetic significance of the Sabbath day, (the seventh and last day of the week), that I understood why he would raise up his elect “at the last day.” Four times, our Messiah uses this mysterious phrase about raising up his elect on the last day. I figured that if he bothered to say it four times, it must be pretty important, and I should find out what he means. I suspect that these four times when he uses the phrase in the gospel of John, are hinting at the idea that the elect will be gathered “from the four corners of the earth” by the angels from the“four winds of heaven” (Revelation 7:1; Matthew 24:31).

The number four represents the harvest field, as Yisra’el is commanded not to harvest the four corners of their fields, but to save it for the stranger, the widow and the sojourner passing through (Leviticus 19:9; 23:22). Hence, the number four is prophetically pointing us the end-time harvest of souls (from the four corners of the earth), at the second coming of Messiah:

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:39 And this is the Father’s will which has
sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent
me, that everyone which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him up at the
last day.

Yahuwchanon (John) 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father
which has sent me draw him: and I will
raise him up at the last day.Yahuwchanon (John) 6:54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my
blood, has eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day.

The last day of our seven-day week is called the Sabbath day, because it concludes the six-day work-week, and it is a day of rest, which YaHuWaH sanctified and called holy (Genesis 2:2-3).

With this seven-day week, YaHuWaH has shown us patterns throughout scripture to help us understand his covenant relationship with us.In this study, I aim to show that our Messiah resurrected on the seventh and last day of the week, and not on Sunday morning as traditionally taught in the Christian Church. Additionally, I aim to illustrate that the resurrection of his chosen ones shall also follow in the same pattern as his resurrection. Thus, when he said that he would raise up his elect “at the last day,” he is describing a Sabbath resurrection for himself, and also for his followers. Understand that the seventh and last day of the week is also pointing to the seventh and last millennium since the creation. Thus the “last day” is not merely pointing us to a weekly Sabbath resurrection, but also a resurrection at the end of 6,000 years since creation, taking us into the one thousand year reign of Messiah as the “Sabbath Millennium.” At the end of his one-thousand year reign, there will be yet another resurrection on the “eighth day” just as there is an eighth day following the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles. This event is seen in Revelation 21, as we see that the bride of Messiah will then be transformed into the New Jerusalem.The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) explained very well that the resurrection of our Messiah is a pattern for our own resurrection:Romiym (Romans) 6:3 Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach (Messiah) were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
like as Mashiyach (Messiah)t was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

Some might argue “It doesn’t matter when he resurrected, only that he died for our sins and he resurrected on the third day.” However, this argument is fallacious, because it does not take into account the fact that the number seven is used in connection with all the covenants YaHuWaH has made with his creation. If we do not adhere to his prophetic patterns, we will not be able to understand his covenant promises. Those who disregard his instructions to honor the seventh day of the week as a day of rest, are missing the prophetic shadow picture of our Messiah entirely.

As a bride being prepared to meet her bridegroom at the altar, she must know what day and what hour the bridegroom will come for her. If she arrives at the wedding on a Sunday, but the bridegroom was there the day before on the Sabbath day, she will miss her wedding day, just like those foolish virgins in Matthew 25.

The Number Seven Symbolizes Covenant

The number seven is used to signify YaHuWaH’s covenants, as we see this pattern repeated many places in the Bible. There are seven days in the week, and seven branches in the Temple Menorah (Exodus 25:37). There are also seven colors in the rainbow (Genesis 9:13-16), and the earth was divided into seven continents after the flood (Genesis 10:25-32). Jacob worked for each of his wives (Leah & Rachel) for seven years (Genesis 29:18-20; 31:41). Jacob’s son,Joseph served Pharaoh during seven years of plenty, followed by seven years of famine (Genesis 41:27-36).

The seven-day week is also the basis for the prophetic pattern seen in The Seventy Weeks of Daniel in the 9th chapter. We are commanded to forgive our brother “seventy times seven,” (Matthew 18:22). We are commanded to count seven Sabbaths of years until the 49th year, and then in the 50th year there is a Jubilee, a cancellation of debts (Leviticus 25:8). We are commanded to count seven weekly Sabbaths following the Passover leading up to The Feast of Weeks or Shavuot/Pentecost on the 50th day (Leviticus 23:15-16).Ultimately, the seventh day of the week, is a miniature cycle which points us to what some may prophetically refer to as “The Sabbath Millennium.”

At the completion of the seventh millennium from creation, we will then begin eternity when the New Heaven and the New Earth will come down out of heaven (Revelation 21:1-3). This will commence what is called “The Last Great Day,” otherwise known as“The Eighth Day,” following the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot. Thecommandment in the Towrah to keep the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days is followed by the eighth day, which is also a High Sabbath:Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep
a feast unto YHWH seven days: on the first day shall be a Shabbat (Sabbath),
and on the eighth day shall be a Shabbat
(Sabbath).

The Feast of Tabernacles also serves as a miniature “week,” replicating the seven thousand years since the creation until “the restoration of all things,” (Acts 3:21). At the end of this 7,000 year creation week, the eighth millennium, (symbolized by the eighth day of Sukkot) will be the culmination of restoration since the fall of mankind in the garden. At this event, our Heavenly Father’s will shall accomplished “on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).Seven Everlasting CovenantsThere have been seven covenant promises that YaHuWaH has made since the fall in the garden. He made a covenant with Adam & Eve, with Noah, Abraham, Moses, with the nation of Yisra’el, and with King David. He also promised to renewed his commitment to honor these covenants with the ushering in of the Briyth Chadashah, or the “Renewed Covenant,” (Jeremiah 31:31-33; Hebrews 8:8 & 13; 12:24). With each of these covenants, YaHuWaH called them “The Everlasting Covenant,” or the Briyth Owlam, indicating that not one of his covenants shall come to an end. Each and every one of his covenants are everlasting. In Psalm 105:10 and in Isaiah 61:8, YaHuWaH confirms his “Everlasting Covenant,” for eternity withYisra’el.Thus, YaHuWaH has given us a miniature seven-day week, so that we can observe his plan for the redemption of humanity within his seven-thousand-years of restoration. As the seventh day of the week takes us to the weekly Sabbath day, so does the 7,000th day since the creation, take us to our eternal rest in Messiah:2nd Keefa (Peter) 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant
of this one thing, that one day is with YHWH as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day.

The fourth commandment telling us to keep the seventh day of the week qadowsh (holy), is pointing us ultimately to an event that has not taken place yet. The ultimate Sabbath day is an event in the future, that we are commanded to rehearse for every weekas a “holy convocation” (Leviticus 23:3).This word “convocation” in Hebrew is“miqra” which means a“rehearsal.” If the bride is rehearsing for the future “Marriage Supper of the Lamb” every Sabbath day, she will be better able to understand the time-keeping mechanisms of her bridegroom so that she can be “in one accord” with him and synchronized on his calendar. Twelve Hours of Daylight for Twelve Tribes Walking in the Light

History records that before the Babylonian Captivity, the House of Yahuwdah (Judah), observed the Sabbath during the 12-hour period of the “daylight” (from sunrise until sunset) on the 7th day of the week. In Exodus 16:22-24, we learn that the Sabbath was celebrated starting in the morning hours. This is not to imply that the seventh day of the week called the “Sabbath Day” is only to be kept for twelve hours.I am by no means advocating that we only keep a 12-hour Sabbath day. For the time being, as we have daylight and night time, there will be 24 hours for each calendar date. However, in eternity, we will enter into our eternal Sabbath rest where there is no darkness at all:Chazown (Revelation) 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:
for the glory of Elohiym did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.Chazown (Revelation) 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light
of the sun; for YHWH Elohiym gives them light: and they shall reign for
ever and ever.A calendar “date,” according to scripture lasts for 24 hours, but a “day” only lasts for twelve hours. In Leviticus 23:27-32 we understand that “Yom Kippur,” called the“Day of Atonement” begins on the “tenth day of the seventh month,” yet YaHuWaH tells us that we begin to celebrate it on the“ninth day at evening,” and we are to afflict our souls“from evening to evening.” This is how we know that a calendar “date” changes at evening and that it runs its course for 24 hours. But a“day” (the light hours) only lasts for twelve hours:

Yahuwchanon (John) 11:9 Yahuwshuwa answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man
walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.

The fact that there are twelve hours of daylight is a prophetic picture of the Twelve Tribes of Yisra’el who are called to “walk in the light, as Messiah is also in the light” (1st John 1:7). He also calls his chosen ones “the light of the world,” (Matthew 5:14)just as he is the light of the world (John 8:12).The question remains, “If there are twelve hours of daylight for Twelve Tribes of Yisra’el, then what do the twelve hours of darkness represent?”

There are those who are called “Yisra’el” by our Heavenly Father, and yet, they are still in darkness, for they have not yet come into the light of Messiah. Those who are still in darkness are the Gentiles who will only come into the light, when Yisra’el begins to walk fully in the light that she is called into.

As there are twenty-four hours in the day, made up of twelve light hours and twelve dark hours, which is why there are “twenty four elders” who intercede and preside over “Yisra’el” 24-hours per day(Revelation 4:4-10; 5:8-14; 11:16; 19:4).

These twenty-four elders represent both houses of Yisra’el (Isaiah 8:14). There are those who are called “Yisra’el” whohave come into the light of the Renewed Covenant at the first coming of Messiah. And then there are those who are called “Yisra’el” who are still in darkness, but they will come into the light at the second coming of Messiah. This is why there are twelve foundations stones in the New Jerusalem for the Twelve Apostles, and there are twelve gates for the Twelve Tribes of Yisra’el (Revelation 21:14).The entire purpose for this study is to illustrate that the period called “day” is only twelve hours long, and the period called“night” is also twelve hours long. Another thing that I aim to show is that our Messiah resurrected on the Sabbath day, and not on Sunday morning. But why are these things important to know? Firstly, those in the Christian Church who use the excuse that the Sabbath was changed to Sunday, because they erroneously believe our Messiah was resurrected on Sunday morning, cannot use this excuse any longer. Once we uncover the truth about when his crucifixion and resurrection took place, we can throw away that excuse and get back to honoring the seventh day and keeping it holy as commanded.

Those who deny that our Messiah was in the heart of the earth for exactly “three days and three nights,” have tried to suggest that he was only in the grave for “approximately three days” or that he resurrected “within three days.” Some have tried to suggest that in ancient times, only the daylight hours counted as “days,” thus they conclude that his alleged Friday crucifixion was day #1, then his Sabbath burial was day #2, and then finally, his resurrection was on Sunday morning was day #3.I am going to illustrate for you, why it is not prophetically fitting, nor is it possible for our Messiah to have been resurrected on a Sunday morning after a Friday crucifixion. For a more detailed study, please see the blog entitled: “Three Days & Three nights in the Heart of the Earth: The Good Friday Myth.”The Sign of Jonah

Our Messiah rebuked the religious leaders of his day who were seeking a sign from him that he was their genuine, awaited Messiah:

Matthithyahuw (Matthew) 12:

38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.

39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the
sign of the prophet Yownah (Jonah):

40 For as Yownah (Jonah) was three days and three nights in the whale’s
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of
the earth.

You will notice that he said he would be in the heart of the earth for threedaylight periods (12 hours each) and three night-time periods (12 hours each). This means a total of 72 hours. If our Messiah was crucified at the ninth hour of the day (3:00 p.m.), we need only count 3-24 hour periods from there and we can ascertain when he resurrected. We know from the historic Hebrew calendar, that our Messiah did not die on what is called “Good Friday.”His Passover crucifixion in the year 30 A.D. took place on the fourth day of the week (what we today call Wednesday). Counting 72 hours (3-24 hour periods) forward, brings us to the same time of day, around 3:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, before the Sabbath was ending. Our Messiah resurrected on the Sabbath day to redeem those who had profaned his holy Sabbath day, and as a result, they were taken into the Babylonian Captivity.

The House of Judah had profaned the Sabbath day and consequently, YaHuWaH allowed them to be taken into the Babylonian Captivity.

After the Yahuwdiy (Jews) returned from their captivity back to Jerusalem, they were fully aware that they had been sent into captivity with the Babylonians because they had profaned the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:17; Ezekiel 22:8,26,38). They had deeply repented, and now they were taking extra precautions to not allow merchants to come in to sell their wares on the Sabbath day:

Nechemyahuw (Nehemiah) 13:

18 Did
not your fathers thus, and did not our Elohiym bring all this evil upon us, and
upon this city? yet you bring more wrath upon Yisra’el by profaning the Sabbath.

19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Yerushalayim(Jerusalem)began to be dark before the Sabbath,I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged
that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: andsome of my servants set I at the gates, that there should
no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.

20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged
without Yerushalayim(Jerusalem)
once or twice.

21Then
I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge you about the wall? if
youdo
so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on
the Sabbath.

In the besowrah (gospel) of Yahuwchanon (John) in the sixth chapter, our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa promised to raise up his elect “at the last day.”What exactly did he mean by this? In order to understand this phrase “I will raise him up at the last day,”we must first lay the framework of what a “day” is in Hebrew understanding.

As you can see, the word “yowm” in Hebrew literally means a 12-hour day from sunrise to sunset. Since the root word for “yowm” means “to be hot,” it becomes apparent that this word more often than not is literally a 12-hour period. It sometimes can refer to a 24-hour cycle (from sunset to sunset), but in most cases when scripture uses the term “day,” it is referring to the 12-hours of daylight, as our Messiah confirmed this in John 11:9. The Apostle Keefa (Peter) exhibited this understanding when he explained that one day is like 1,000 years to YaHuWaH:2nd Keefa (Peter) 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with YHWH as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

At creation, YaHuWaH separated the “light” from the “darkness” and he did not treat them as one continuous time period. He called the light part the 24-hours “day,” and the dark part of it he called “night.”

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 1:

4 And Elohiym saw the light, that it was good: and Elohiym divided the light from the darkness.

5 And Elohiym called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.....

2nd Qorintiym (Corinthians) 6:14...... and what communion has light with darkness?

In the scripture verses above, we first see that Yah separated the light from the darkness. The Apostle Sha’ul (Paul) understood this concept very well, which is why he declared that we cannot mix these two periods together. We get a glimpse into the plan of salvation for mankind by understanding that it will take place within a 7,000-year period called “creation week.” Yah created heaven and earth in “six days,” but then he rested from his work on the “seventh day.”

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 2:2 And on the seventh day Elohiym ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Bereshiyth (Genesis) 2:3 And Elohiymblessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohiym created and made.

Shemoth (Exodus) 20:11 For in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YHWH blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

YaHuWaH has allotted 7,000 years for the implementation of his salvation plan for mankind, at the end of which will bring in the “eighth day,” or the “eighth millennium” into eternity---a new beginning with no ending. The seventh and eighth days of the Feast of Tabernacles is a miniature picture of these two periods----the seventh and the eighth millennia.YaHuWaH created heaven and earth, the animals, plants, trees and mankind (humans) all within six literal days, and then he rested on the literal 7thday that week. He did his first creative work in one literal week, but he is also continuing to recreate and restore mankind since the fall in the garden. At the end of 6,000 years, our Messiah will return, taking us into what is called “The One Thousand-Year Reign of Messiah.” Another name for this is called“The Messianic Kingdom,” when our Messiah shall rule and reign on earth for one thousand years, appointing his bride to be his “kings and priests” (Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 20:4-6). At the beginning of the Messianic Kingdom, the first-born bride of Messiah will be “resurrected,” and given an immortal body(1st Corinthians 15:50-54). But there will also be those during this reign who will not become the bride Messiah until the very end. Just as Jacob married Leah first (after seven years of work), our Messiah will marry those who are “the first-born” at the beginning of the Millennium.There will be those during the Millennium who typify Rachel, and they too shall be married to our Messiah, at the end of the Millennium, for they shall be “the last-born.”Mattityahuw (Matthew) 19:30 But many that are FIRST shall be LAST; and the LAST shall be FIRST.What does this mean? It means that those who were called “Old Covenant Yisra’el,” who did not receive Messiah at his first coming, may very well end up becoming the last ones to get married to him on the eight day or the eighth millennium. And those who received him at his first coming, may end up being the first to be his bride in the seventh millennium!However, both brides, (typifying Leah & Rachel) shall be raised up together to form “The New Jerusalem” at the very end of the Messianic Kingdom, on what is called “The Last Great Day.”Messiah Crucified on the 4th Day of the Week

Our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa came to earth in human form during the “Fourth Millennium” (the middle of the 7,000-year creation week). He also died “in the middle of the week” (Passover week, on the 4th day of the week or Wednesday). He also died in the “middle of the 7,000-year creation week in the 4th Millennium.” This would have also been in the middle of “Daniel’s 70thWeek” (in the middle of his 7-year ministry). Hence, he died “in the midst of the week, within the week, within the week.”Let’s take a look at this triple fulfillment of shebuwah or sevens:

7,000 years: Messiah died in the 4thMillennium from creation in the midst of the week of 7 millennia.

7 years: Messiah died in the middle of a 7-year ministry of working for Rachel (like Jacob). His ministry was 3.5 years, and his “Two Witnesses” in Revelation 11 will pick up where he left off with a 3.5 year ministry (1,260 days). They will finish out the 7-year ministry of working for Rachel.

7 days: Messiah died in the middle of Passover Week on a Wednesday.

The 7th day Sabbath points to our redemption in Messiah, Yahuwshuwa!

YaHuWaH always seems to do things in “patterns,” which is why he resurrected on the “last day” of the literal week. This also points to the bigger pattern where he will raise up his elect at the “last day” of the 7,000-year creation week. Romans 6:5 says that we have been “planted together in the likeness of his death,” and that we shall also be“planted together in the likeness of his resurrection.” Thus, we can see that he causes his elect to follow in the same pattern as him, in the way that he died, and resurrected. It is because “seed reproduces after its own kind,” and we are born-again of his“incorruptible seed” (1st Peter 1:23). Now, that I have illustrated the importance of the number “seven” as it relates to prophecy, we must understand, that our Messiah didnot resurrect on “the first day of the week,” known as “Sunday.” For in the same way that he promised to raise up his elect, “on the last day” (the last day of the seven thousand years), he too was raised up on the last day of the literal week!Hoshea (Hosea) 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

Hosea’s prophecy is showing us that on the 3rdday from his crucifixion, Messiah would be raised from the dead, and that he would also raise up his elect unto new life

“on the third day.” You may be asking yourself at this point,“How can we be raised on the third day and on the seventh day simultaneously?” Our Messiah was raised on the third day from his death, but it was on the seventh day of the week. In Revelation 11:11 his Two Witnesses are also raised back to life “after three days.” However,this prophecy in Hosea is not merely talking about a literal three days. It is also referring to “three thousand years” from when he was resurrected! After the seventh millennium, his bride will be taken into the “eighth day,”as she will be transformed into the New Jerusalem.This last day of the Feast of Tabernacles is called“The Last Great Day”or in Hebrew, “La’Shanah Rabbah.”Chazown (Revelation) 21:1-2 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I Yahuwchanon (John) saw the holy city, new Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), coming down from Elohiym out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Messiah’s Sabbath Resurrection

Before we can get an accurate picture of when our Messiah resurrected, we must first define these biblical terms:

The word “evening” in Hebrew is ereb:

#6153. `ereb eh’-reb from 6150;dusk:--+ day, evening, tide, night.

It comes from the root word “arab” which means the following:

#6150. `arab aw-rab’ a primitive root (identical with 6148 through the idea of covering with a texture); to grow dusky at sundown:--be darkened, towardevening.

*Note: This means “toward evening” but not evening yet, hence it can mean the period of the latter half of the day from 12 noon (noontide) until sunset at 6:00 p.m.

Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which YHWH overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide (eth, noon to evening time);

Our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa was sacrificed on the tree at 9:00 a.m. fulfilling the morning sacrifice done in the Temple. Between 12:00 noon, until 3:00 p.m., there was total darkness in order to fulfill the commandment to kill the Passover Lamb “between the evenings.”

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 27:45 Now from the sixth hour (12 noon) there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour (3 p.m.)

Marqos (Mark) 15:33 And when the sixth hour (12 noon) was come, there wasdarknessover the whole land until the ninth hour (3 p.m.)

Debariym (Deuteronomy) 16:6But at the place which YHWH your Elohiym shall choose to place his name in (Yerushalayim), there you shall sacrifice the Pesach (Passover)between the evenings (beyn ha’ereb), at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Mitzrayim (Egypt).You will notice that Messiah was first crucified at the 3rdhour of the day (9 a.m.) according to Mark 15:25. This is when the morning oblation was offered up daily in the Temple, thus he fulfilled the morning oblation. Then he hung on the tree from 12 noon until 3:00 p.m. and it grew dark between those hours making it as “evening” or noon-tide. He finally died at 3:00 p.m. fulfilling the Towrah commandment that the Passover Lamb was to be sacrificed “between the evenings.”
The period that is called “evening” in Genesis 1:5 means dusk, and it is a period that lasts from 12 noon until 6:00 p.m. Genesis 1:5 says that there was a period called “evening” (noon until sundown) and then a period called “morning” (from sunrise until twelve noon). This period completed a “twelve-hour day.”

Yahuwchanon (John) 11:9 Yahuwshuwa answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?

Okay, so we have established that there are 12 hours in a day---not 24 hours. The idea of a 24-hour cycle for a day comes from ancient Babylon. The 24-hour day is a “mixture” of darkness and light, yet our Creator, separated these two periods at creation.

Elohiym has already separated the night from the day, the darkness from the light. They are not to be co-mingled and treated as one time period. This is why the Apostle Sha’uwl used a metaphor of not mixing light with darkness:2nd Qorintiym (Corinthians) 6:14...... and what communion has light with darkness?

Let us define what these terms mean in scripture:

Morning:(bowqer) dawn, the breaking of day; also sunrise until noon.

Noontide:(eth) noon until sundown.

Evening:(ereb) noon until sundown (dusk or twilight).

Night:(layil) after sundown until before dawn the next morning (total darkness).

Day:(yowm) a twelve-hour cycle from sunrise to sunset; also a 24-hour calendar date.

The term called “night” in scripture is “layil” in Hebrew and it is not the same thing as “evening.”

There are four watches in a night and each one is three hours long, totaling twelve hours to a “night.”

The Hebrew word for “day” is “yowm” and it most often means “from sunrise to sunset”or during the warm hours of the day. It can also mean “the full period from sunset to sunset” or a 24-hour period. Thus we can see that Elohiym began his 24-hour day at twelve noon until sundown (evening). And then came the night. He continued his 24-hour day from sunrise until twelve noon (morning):Bereshiyth (Genesis) 1:5 And Elohiym called the light day [yom], and the darkness he called night [layil]. Andthe evening [ereb] and the morning [boqer] were the first day.The Creator first named the light hours “yom,” which is called“day” in English. He then named the dark hours “layil,” which is translated as “night.” After he named these two periods, he caused the evening to commence the new calendar date, which is why it reads in Hebrew as follows: “Existed evening existed morning day one.”When reading Genesis 1:5, we see that the “evening” (dusk) came first, and then came the twelve hours of darkness called “night.”After that, came “morning,” (dawn). As soon as the sun came up, it became “day” for another twelve hours.Thus we can see that a calendar date begins at sunset and ends again at the next sunset. However, the twelve hours of daylight begin in the morning and end at sundown (from sunrise to sunset).

The “morning and evening sacrifices” sacrifices in the Temple were done within a 12-hour period between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

2nd Dibre ha Yamiym (Chronicles) 13:11 And they burn unto YHWH every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of YHWH our Elohiym; but you have forsaken him.

These two daily sacrifices were done as “bookends” at the beginning and the end of a day.

1.) The new calendar “date” begins and ends at sundown, and is a 24 - hour long cycle.

2.) The “daylight” begins at sunrise and is 12 hours long until sundown.

When Did Messiah Resurrect?

Most people assume that he resurrected on Sunday morning because of this verse in Matthew 28:1 as it is written in the King James Version:Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 28:1In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Miryam (Mary) Magdalene and the other Miryam (Mary) to see the sepulchre.

The problem with Matthew 28:1 is that the word “dawn” is a poor translation. The Greek word there for “dawn” is the equivalent of a word in Hebrew that means “a mixture of light and dark” hence, the word should really be “dusk” as the sun was going down.

The Strong’s Hebrew Concordance reveals that at sundown, the “dawning of the day” is at twilight or dusk:

#2020. epiphosko ep-ee-foce'-ko a form of 2017; to begin to grow light:--begin to dawn, draw on.

#2017. epiphauo ep-ee-fow'-o a form of 2014; to illuminate (figuratively):--give light.

You can see why the English translators thought that the word should be “dawn” as in early in the morning, just before sunrise, but the word epiphosko can mean “....to draw on” and it can mean “the beginning of something”as in the “dawn of a new era.”Hence, for something to “dawn” meant that something new was approaching. The term is much broader than the English word that we use to describe “sunrise.”

Murdock’s Translation on e-sword has it translated correctly:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 28:1 And in the evening of the Sabbath as it was dusk, as the first (day) of the week began to dawn, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary, to view the sepulcher.

You will notice that Murdock is calling this time of day “dusk” but he is saying that the “week” (Sabbaton in Greek) was beginning to “dawn” or to “draw on.” In other words it was not sunrise, but it was the end of the Sabbath at sundown, as the new week was approaching (dawning).

The MRC Translation on e-sword translates it like this:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 28:1 Now late on the Shabbat, as it began to draw toward the first of the week, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miriam went to look at the grave.

Andrew Gabriel Roth who translated the English Aramaic New Testament (AENT) Peshitta also agrees with this interpretation. Here is what he says:

“Aramaic literally reads ‘b’ramsha din b’shabata’ or ‘in the evening of the shabbat.’ What is true for dawning is also true for setting in the sense of ‘conclusion’ as is meant here....Murdock and Etheridge also confirm this idiomatic reading in their translations.”

Something that one must understand is that the calendar date changes at sunset each day--- not at midnight. It was Pope Gregory who made the date change at midnight in 1582 C.E., thus fulfilling the role of the Beast in Daniel 7:23-25. “the beast shall think to change times and laws...” The new day was“dawning”at sunset and the word “day” here is in italics in the King James Version. Whenever you see a word in italics in the KJV, that means it was not there originally.

The verse should read like this in the King James Version:

Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 28:

1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to draw on toward the first of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of YHWH descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Now think about this logically. The Sabbath ends on Saturday night at sundown right? It says here that it was the “end of the Sabbath” so how in the world could it be early Sunday morning if the Sabbath had not ended yet? It was still approaching the end of the Sabbath on Saturday night before sundown. Hence, when it says “towards the first of the week” it is telling us that Saturday night at sundown had not arrived yet, but it was moving towards sundown on Saturday night-----the first calendar date of the week!

This period is called “Havdalah” which means “separation, exiting the Sabbath.”

We see this occurring in Acts 20:7:

Acts 20:7 And upon the first [day]of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Most Christians use this as an excuse to say that “Sunday” is the true “Christian Sabbath” and they think that they have “proof” that the disciples “broke bread” on the first “day” of the week. The natural conclusion would be to think that this is speaking of “Sunday Morning” but the word “day” does not appear in the original text! Another important thing to note is that in Acts 20:7 the Greek translation for “firstday of the week” says “En de te mia ton Sabbaton.” Here, “mia” is not “the FIRST day of the week” but “the First of the Weeks” (plural). If you read the entire chapter of Acts 20, you will see in the previous verses that the disciples had just finished celebra-ting the “Feast of Unleavened Bread” and now they were counting “seven weeks” (Sabbaths) until “The Feast of Weeks” (Pentecost or Shabuwoth) and so this was the “first of the weeks” (plural) in the count. The English translators did not know this because they were not keeping the seventh day holy as the Sabbath, and thus they did not translate this correctly. Also important to note, is that whenever a word is italicized in the King James Version, it means that the word was not there in the original text. As you can see, the word “day” was not in the original text, because this was not in the day time! This was the first of the “weeks” (Sabbaths) in their 50-day count-down until Pentecost and this was immediately following the Sabbath on Saturday evening:

Acts 20:7: And upon the first of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Once we have this basic understanding, we realize that Acts 20:7 was not speaking about Sunday morning. It was describing the “first calendar date” of the week called “Havdalah” (exiting the Sabbath). It is further validated by the fact that Sha’uwl (Paul) preached until midnight that same night. If this had been Sunday morning, he would’ve preached from early Sunday at 9:00 a.m. (approximately) until 12 midnight that same night and this means he would’ve preached for 15 hours straight! It is absurd to believe that Paul preached that many hours in one day. One of the things that I like about the King James Version, is that it italicizes words that were not originally there in the text. The same thing occurs here with this word “day” is in italics here in John 20:1:

Yahuwchanon (John) 20:1 The first [day]of the week comes Miryam (Mary) Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Notice that it was “yet dark” and the word “day” was not there in the original text.

Hence, it does not say “the first day of the week” it says “the first of the week” meaning the first calendar date of the week. Yahuwshuwa said in John 11:9 that there are 12 hours in a day.

Did you ever wonder why our Messiah made a point of separating 3 days from 3 nights? If a “day” is 24 hours long, why did he not say that he would be in the heart of the earth for “three days?” Why did he make a point of saying “three days & three nights?”

The word Greek word for “half” in Revelation 11:11 is a word that means “a part of” something, and not necessarily “fifty percent of something.”

Chazown (Revelation) 11:11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from Elohiym entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

If scripture sets a precedence of defining a “half of a day” as only a part of a day and it does not round off the partition of the day to a full day, then one cannot use the full day of Wednesday (Messiah’s crucifixion) to mean the entire “day one”of his “three days and three nights” prophecy. The first “day” of this prophecy must then commence on Thursday at sunrise (the morning after his crucifixion).

This means 6-12 hour cycles:

Wednesday (14thof Abib) 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. = 1/2 of a day

Wednesday (15thof Abib) 6:00 p.m.- Thursday 6:00 a.m. = #1 night

Thursday (15thof Abib) 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. = #1 day

Thursday (16thof Abib) 6:00 p.m. - Friday 6:00 a.m. = #2 night

Friday (16thof Abib) 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. = # 2 day

Friday (17thof Abib) 6:00 p.m. - Saturday 6:00 a.m. # 3 night

Saturday (17thof Abib) 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. = # 3 day

Grand Total = 3 days & 3 nights (and a half of a day on Wednesday like the 2 witnesses in Revelation 11).

The idea of calling a 24-hour cycle “day” comes from Ancient Babylon, where mixture with paganism was prevalent. The fact that our Messiah’s resurrection occurred before the“first”calendar date of the week, and it was not yet dark, means that he resurrected just before sundown on Saturday evening. The women were unable to go to his tomb until after his body was gone from the grave, because the Roman Soldiers were ordered to stand guard until the end of their three-day watch. These women could’ve been arrested had they gone to the tomb sooner. By the time the women arrived, the stone had already been rolled away earlier that day and the angel was there waiting to give them the good news!

Messiah resurrected before the end of Sabbath while it was still daylight! HalleluYah! He is Master (Lord) of the Sabbath!

The Conclusion: No More Excuse to call Sunday a Holy Day!

Yahuwshuwa is Master (Lord) of the Sabbath Day!

How Sabbath Observance Came to Begin on Friday Night

This approximately, is the picture we have of the Sabbath in those very old days, when both kingdoms of Yisra’el, (Yahuwdah & Ephrayim) were united.

It was a festival on which there was a cessation of daily work, and the people assembled in the sanctuary to celebrate the “day.” The strict rest of later days was not yet a part of the Sabbath (p.6)...At any rate, beginning with the BABYLONIAN EXILE, we find the Sabbath attaining a new significance and a deeper spiritual content....IN THE BABYLONIAN EXILE...The Sabbath attained a “higher state of development among the exiled Jews in Babylonia, and it was these exiled Jews who enforced on Palestine, their Sabbath, with its stricter observance and its universal rest (p.7).

The Jews in Palestine, about a century after the Babylonian exile, did NOT as yet know the strict Sabbath of the Babylonian Jews (p.8)...At The Beginning of the Common Era...In order to assure against profanation of the Sabbath the Jews ADDED THE LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON HOURS TO THE SABBATH (p.13).. The Sabbath in general, thus attained its peak in the first two centuries of the Common Era, the age of the Tannaim (70 A.D.-200A.D.), as the Jewish teachers and sages of that period were called. However, there were no Friday Night services as of yet. This most beautiful part of the Sabbath observance developed somewhat later in the age of the Amoraim (350 A.D.-500 A.D.), as the sages of the Talmud from the third century on were called, and it did not attain its highest peak until much later, at the very threshold of modern times. In the time of the Tannaim there was no Friday Night Services in the Synagogues (p.14)...Later it became customary to hold communal services in the Synagogue on Friday Night...”(p.15).-----The Jewish Festivals: History & Observance (by Hayyim Schauss - Shocken 1938).

Twelve Hour Day Sabbath In the Towrah

Shemoth (Exodus) 16:

19 And Mosheh said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Mosheh; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Mosheh was wroth with them.

21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh.

23 And he said unto them, This is that which YHWH has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto YHWH: bake that which you will bake to day, and seethe that you will seethe; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Mosheh bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

25 And Mosheh said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto YHWH: today you shall not find it in the field.

26 Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

28 And YHWH said unto Mosheh, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws?

29 See, for that YHWH has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide you every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

As we can see from the above verses, Mosheh told the people to gather the manna on the sixth day (verse 22). Then in verse 23, Mosheh commanded the people to bake the manna on the sixth day and to save it for the next morning on the Sabbath day. In verse 24, the people ate the manna that they had prepared the day before, but now on the morning of the seventh day, Mosheh said to the people “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath.” The sequence of events in verses 22-25 clearly show us that the Sabbath was kept for the 12-hour period of“daylight” starting with the morning of the seventh day. However, does this mean the sixth night of the week (Friday Night) is not the Sabbath? Please, do not misunderstand me. As we learned earlier from Nehemiah 13:19, the prophet commanded that the gates of Jerusalem be shut “Before the Sabbath, when the gates began to be dark.” This tells us that on the 6th day of the week (what we today call Friday), as soon as the sun was going down (dusk, twilight), is when the gates were shut in order to prevent the Sabbath day from bring profaned.The Sabbath officially begins at sundown on the sixth day of the week, which then becomes the seventh day of the week. However, the OBSERVANCE of the Sabbath, did not officially take place until the next morning, during the light hours.First Fruits Offering At Sundown or Sunrise?

There seems to be some question as to when the High Priest was to offer the wave sheaf offering in the Temple according toLeviticus 23:11:

“....And he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH, to be accepted for you:on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.”

Yahuwshuwa Messiah acted as the Passover sacrifice, but when he resurrected he was the High Priest after the order of Malkiy-Tzedeq (Melchizedek) who was commanded to wave the firstfruits offering of souls before YaHuWaH.

Romiym (Romans) 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have thefirstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 15:20 But now is Mashiyach (Messiah) risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 15:23But every man in his own order: Mashiyach (Messiah) thefirstfruits:afterward they that are Mashiyach’s at his coming.

Ya’aqob (James) 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

The Hebrew word for “first fruits”isbikkuwr,and this is why The Day of the First Fruits is called“Yom Ha’Bikkuwriym.”

Our Mashiyach, Yahuwshuwa is our eternal High Priest after the order of Malki Tzedeq (Melchizedek), and he himself offered up the first fruits of the souls of the redeemed according to Ephesians 4:8-10 when he went into the lower parts of the earth and gave gifts unto men. But when exactly did he do this? When was the High Priest scheduled to offer the “first fruits?” When was “the morrow after the Sabbath” to begin?

We can glean some understanding of when this took place from the historical account in the Talmud:

As for when the High Priests were to offer the Wave Sheaf Offering, it is historically proven that it was offered at the close of the Sabbath at sundown: Though Scripture specifies the day the wavesheaf was to be cut, it gives no specific time of day to cut it. Jewish history from the Second Temple period gives an interesting insight. The second-century Mishnah affirms that, when the Sadducees controlled the Temple, the sickle was put to the grain just as the sun was going down on the weekly Sabbath (Menahot 10:1-4, Jacob Neusner translation, pp. 753-754). The book, Biblical Calendars, states, “The Boethusians [Temple priests] reaped [the firstfruits sheaf] at the going out of the Sabbath” (p. 218. Additional information can be found in the section titled “Temple Service,” p. 280, as well as in The Temple: Its Ministry and Services by Alfred Edersheim, 1994, pp. 203-205). The New Testament’s silence on this Sadducean practice—along with its agreement with the ritual’s fulfillment in Messiah—must be construed as acceptance of its validity.

The priests began to make the first cutting right at the end of the Sabbath, continuing over into the first day of the week, when the bulk of the work would be done. The ritual, however, was not complete until the sheaf was offered (waved) before Elohiym the following morning, or more precisely, between 9:00 a.m. and noon. Some might object to the reaping of the sheaf in the closing minutes of the Sabbath because it is a day of rest when no work is to be done. After one understands the full reason for it, as well as Yahuwshuwa’s direct statement that a priest is blameless in the performance of his required duties (Matthew 12:5), any objections to the practice disappear.

The ConclusionYahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach resurrected at Havdalah (exiting the Sabbath). Afterward, he went to the heavenly Temple as the High Priest to wave the“first fruits.”However, it was not the barley that he waved. Instead, Yahuwshuwa waved before YaHuWaH, the souls of men as his first fruits offering! His resurrection on the seventh day of the week points us to the Sabbath Millennium when he will also resurrect his bride in the final wheat harvest at the last day!

Billith I did not say "twelve hours from sunset to sunset" any place in this blog. Perhaps it was a typo? I will proof-read it again. At creation YaHuWaH separated the period called "day" from the period called "night" and he did not treat them as a 24 hour "day." YaHuWshuwa our Messiah said that there are only twelve hours in the day (not 24 hours). The Babylonians were famous for "mixing" the day with the night and calling a 24-hour day. But they are not to be mixed together as one period. In Exodus 16 it clearly shows that Yisra'el kept the Sabbath from sunrise to sunset. The Jewish Encyclopedia says that the Sabbath began being kept from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday after the Babylonian Captivity.

Hi Maria, question, if the jewish encyclopedia says that the Sabbath began being kept from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday after the Babylonian Captivity, doesn't this tell us that this is a practice the Jews picked up in captivity is false and in fact the Sabbath doesn't start at sunset but at sunrise?

Kk Dd, you will notice that the prophet Nehemiah took extra precautions to insure that the House of Judah did not violate the Sabbath after they had deeply repented and had come back into the land. This is what I wrote in the article:

The House of Judah had profaned the Sabbath day and consequently, YaHuWaH allowed them to be taken into the Babylonian Captivity.

After the Yahuwdiy (Jews) returned from their captivity back to Jerusalem, they were fully aware that they had been sent into captivity with the Babylonians because they had profaned the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:17; Ezekiel 22:8,26,38). They had deeply repented, and now they were taking extra precautions to not allow merchants to come in to sell their wares on the Sabbath day:

Nechemyahuw (Nehemiah) 13:

18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our Elohiym bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet you bring more wrath upon Yisra’el by profaning the Sabbath.

19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.

20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) once or twice.

21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.

Having said that, I am not suggesting that the Kingdom of Judah "celebrated" the Sabbath on Friday Nights at the Synagogue. They merely took precautions to keep merchants out on Friday Nights. They did not have Synagogue Services on Friday Nights back in those days. They went to the Synagogues on the 7th "DAY" of the week (Saturday morning).

Do I think it is wrong for Jews today to celebrate Sabbath on Friday Nights? I know that YaHuWaH looks upon our heart motives and sees that we are doing the best we know how with our messed up calendar and limited understanding. In light of the fact that Nehemiah began taking precautions on the 6th day of the week before the sun went down, I don't believe it is a sin to begin getting our hearts ready to celebrate Shabbat on Friday Nights. I would rather err on the side of caution by keeping it for 24 hours, than to find out at the judgment that we were wrong in keeping it for only 12 hours.

@Roj, the Talmud explains that there was the 40-Year Yom Kippur Miracle from 30 C.E - 70 C.E. where the black stone came up every year on Yom Kippur and also the red ribbon failed to turn from red to white. This happened for 40 consecutive years leading up to the Roman Siege because Jerusalem rejected their Messiah. But in 1532, Pope Gregory changed the New Year from April 1st to January 1st and that is the reason why previous dates have all changed. Hence, what used to be 30 C.E. is now rendered as 31 C.E. And so he actually died on 30 C.E. but the calculations have been altered now as if he had died in 31 C.E. http://www.TorahCalendar.com shows that Passover began on the night of Tuesday (the 14th of Abib) in the year 31 C.E. In the year 30 C.E. Passover was on a Friday. That is why the dates have been altered by the RCC, in order to confuse prophecy.

I always ask the question; Why did Yahuah use the word 'shabuwa' in Daniel 9:24-27? Why didn't He just use the actual count of years? Genesis 1:14 uses a perfectly good Hebrew word 'shaneh'(#H8141) translated as 'years'. The life span of men from Adam to Noah are given in 'years'(#H8141). That word is used throughout scripture. The word 'shabuwa' is like our words 'pair' and 'dozen'; in order to know for sure what is meant, you either have to have context or another word to tell you what you have a dozen of or a pair of.

Everyone assumes that because the context/history of the first 69 'shabuwa' in Daniel 9:24-27 are clearly meant to be understood as years, that the 70th 'shabuwa' is also meant as years. Why?

In Leviticus 12:5, 'shabuwa' is clearly understood to be a period of seven days. It would be awful if a woman were to be unclean for more than 14 years just because she gave birth to a little girl. Yet, it is also clear that Jacob had to work 7 years for each of his wives. The word 'shabuwa' is used both ways.

What if? What if Yahuah used the word 'shabuwa' knowing that the context/history would show that the first 69 weeks would be correctly understood as periods of seven years, but He knew that the 70th 'shabuwa' would last a period of seven literal days?

I understand that many people have analyzed the time period of the 69 'shabuwa' and found that it ended on the day of the so called 'Tiumphal Entry'. If that happens to be true, then the next seven days would culminate with Yahushua's resurrection at the end of the Sabbath day.

I personally believe that all six items in verse 24 were fulfilled in Yahushua's life, death, burial and resurrection. I wouldn't be, no, won't be surprised to find that the so called 'great tribulation' has been going on for the past 2,000 years, and will conclude at His glorious return.

Shabuwa, I disagree with your assessment. The word "shabuwa" in Hebrew means "sevened." It can mean any time-frame divisible by seven. However, in the context of Daniel's 70th Week, it is clearly speaking of "Seventy Weeks of Years." We know this because of how history unfolded leading up to our Messiah's ministry. Additionally, it does not make sense that the 69 years were "weeks of years," and then suddenly, the 70th week is a literal seven days.

The "Gap Theory" of 2,000 years is addressed in prophecy many times. The word "Gap" in Hebrew also means "Breach." What do you suppose it means in Isaiah 61 when it says "They shall be called Repairers of the Breach?" And what do you suppose the Apostle Paul meant when he said that Israel would be "blinded in part" until "The Fullness of the Gentiles?"

The "blindness" of Israel would last for 2,000 years and on the "third day" (3rd millennium) he would revive Israel (see Hosea 6:2). If "one day is like a thousand years to YaHuWaH" (2nd Peter 3:8), does it not stand to reason that the House of Ephraim would be revived after three "literal days" (at the resurrection of Messiah), and the house of Judah would be revived after three millennia?

Shabuwa, one more thing, it does not make sense that the "great tribulation" has been taking place for 2,000 years as it is clear from scripture that the "great tribulation" lasts for 1,260 days or 3.5 years (see Revelation 11 & Daniel 12).

a normal day seems to go from dawn to blackness, except as told in Way. 23... else "between the two evenings" could not have been and was not referribng to the SAME day... Yahushua didn't hang there for an additional 12/24 hours whilst they kept Shabbat....

Greg Thompson, i disagree with you about the term "between the two evenings." It does mean the SAME day. In some cases, it means "between the two sunsets" (on Passover), and when it comes to the evening and morning sacrifices, it can mean "between twelve noon and sundown." And where did I ever say that Yahuwshuwa hung on the tree for over two days?

Your comments are baffling. The record of the gospels make it clear that they took his body down from the "CROSS" before the sun went down on Passover, because the next day was the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a High Sabbath. And yes, it was a cross, not merely a pole or a stake.

When looking at Math 1:28 it is immdiately clear that it contains a contradiction. It is not even necessary to understand the greek word. No matter which calendar you use it does not work. If you use Gregorian Maria had to be there around 11 pm to 12 pm and dawn is 6 hours later. she can not be in both time frame at the same time. If it is Yah's calendar she is even further apart ...about 12 hours . In addition if she would have been there at dawn than she would have been not at the end of Sabbath but in the middle/roughly 12 hours into the first day. which ever way it can not work which in itself if approached logically shows that the word Dawn can not meet dawn....as the only way it works without violation ..is if the first day is dawning and this does not mean light anyway in this context. It would in no way surprise that if Greek wants to say SUNRISE that it is a completely different word than the one used.

Nonsense, there is no contradiction in Matthew 1:28. The Greek word used for "dawn" is not limited to "early in the morning." It can mean "dusk" as well. The Greek word for "dawn" means "the beginning of something." When does a new calendar date begin? At sundown! See Genesis 1:5 "and the evening and the morning were the first day."

Additionally, the Gregorian Calendar did not exist in the days of Messiah's crucifixion! Pope Gregory caused a date to change at midnight rather than at sundown, but this did not happen until 1582!

Prior to 1582, even Rome recognized that a calendar date changes at sundown!

It seems that your screen name "nonsense" is indicative of your comment which does not make sense.